Relaxation is a key benefit of the yoga practice and can be experienced by anyone quite easily. Lying down tuck your tailbone under so that your sacrum is fully support on the ground. Take the feet at least hips width apart, perhaps wider. Allow your knees to roll inwards so that they touch at the…

The most important part of yoga is coordinating breath with movement. By brining your mind and body into balance you are able to see reality clearly. If the mind is in a disturbed state focused on the external world there is confusion and a basic lack of clarity. Through deep breathing techniques based on the…

Sometimes the way forward is blocked because all that is known is based on the past. To truly learn something new requires surrendering your notions of what is possible and impossible. Trusting a teacher to lead you to this new and sometimes scary place requires a leap of faith. Old and treasured thoughts have to…

Strength in the yoga practice is never just about the physical. Instead it’s a mental strength that prepares you for life’s greatest challenges. You need to be as strong as your dream is big. Diana Nyad is a sixty-four year old American woman who swam 110 miles over 53 hours in open water from Havana,…

The journey into yoga is never just about the external result. Even postures that seem really physically challenging are meant to provide a strong, steady mind as well as a strong body. Navasana is an essential posture for developing a steady mind and strong body. You will be challenged to find a peaceful place inside…

The Sun Salutations are the most basic building block of the yoga practice. When taken as part of a daily practice the Sun Salutations, known as Surya Namaskara in Sanskrit, awaken the fire of purification deep within the inner body. The internal fire is key to detoxifying the body and cleansing impurities through daily yoga…

Yoga teaches you how to walk this thin red line between belief and impossibility, goals and attachment and temporality and eternity with grace and ease. Thus, by doing yoga you also learn how to master the game of life.